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Umberto Eco
Age: 84 †
Born: 1932
Born: January 5
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.
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The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.
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Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.
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In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
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In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.
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The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.
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For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.
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Rem tene, verba sequentur: grasp the subject, and the words will follow. This, I believe, is the opposite of what happens with poetry, which is more a case of verba tene, res sequenter: grasp the words, and the subject will follow.
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A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.
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Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.
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We live for books.
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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.
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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
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